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Tonight we had a peat fire. We\u2019ve seen places where peat is harvested and homes with blocks of peat piled up like cord wood outside, but our cottage is supplied with peat briquettes. Our cast iron stove is made at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England, home of one of Bob\u2019s favorite bridges. We bought lamb chops from George O\u2019Grady the butcher (his sign says Victualler) to eat in front of the fire.<\/p>\n
This has been a busy day \u2013 started with the rainbow mentioned in the last post.<\/p>\n
At 10:00 we met with Una at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation to discuss how to proceed. While I finally got on line, updated my post, checked email and did the few things that required, Bob discussed locations to video and photograph. He also began shooting the library. Peter and Margo, the founders of the BAF have donated their private collection of art books etc to the Foundation. Filling a whole room, it is an amazing resource for the artists who visit and anyone in the Ballycastle community.<\/p>\n
After more discussion we had lunch with Una, Christine who also works for the foundation and visiting artist Eddie Kennedy and his wife, Eithne,\u00a0 at Mary\u2019s Cottage Kitchen, a wonderful lunch caf\u00e9 plus \u201cshe\u2019ll make most anything you want kind of place\u201d\u2014then we headed to Downpatrick Head<\/a>, the signature rock formation in the area\u2014pretty wild!<\/p>\n There was a memorial to:<\/p>\n The weather is nutsy\/crazy. . . while we were shooting the sun would be shining brightly and suddenly clouds would come racing out of the ocean somewhere and dump a bucket of water on you and then the sun would shine as if nothing had occurred. . . Some times the sun would never bother to stop shining. This happened over and over. Each time bring more and more incredible cloud formations and light situations leaving one breathless\u2014and wet! People who live here just smile as we think this is strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our first peat fire! Tonight we had a peat fire. We\u2019ve seen places where peat is harvested and homes with blocks of peat piled up like cord wood outside, but our cottage is supplied with peat briquettes. Our cast iron stove is made at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England, home of one of Bob\u2019s favorite bridges…. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[382,152,153,154],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","tag-ireland","tag-downpatrick-head","tag-peat-fire","tag-coulds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Downpatrick](\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/ireland\/downpatrickHead.jpg\")
<\/p>\nRock formation at Downpatrick Head<\/em><\/h5>\n
“To the memory of the people of
\nKnockaun and Killeen who lost
\ntheir lives here in Poll Na
\nSeantoine in the aftermath of
\nThe Rebellion of 1758.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n![\"Clouds\"](\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/ireland\/clouds1.jpg\")
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<\/p>\nBusy clouds!<\/em><\/h5>\n